♦ Dedre Gentner, SILC Co-PI, was awarded the 2016 David E. Rumelhart Prize for her "contributions to the theoretical foundations of human cognition." Congratulations to Professor Gentner. Read more about Gentner's work that distinguishes her in the field: http://rumelhartprize.org/.

♦ Susan Levine, SILC Faculty Member (Co-PI) at the University of Chicago and SILC research is mentioned in the following article (see the video towards the end too). The article is written by a SILC Graduate Student from Northwestern University: Miller, David (June 8, 2015). Beliefs about innate talent may dissuade students from STEM, The Conversation.com. Retrieved June 12, 2015.

♦ Susan Levine (SILC Faculty Member and Co-PI) was a guest on the radio show, The Colin McEnroe Show, hosted by Connecticut National Public Radio (WNPR). The segment, "Puzzles: The Joy of Being Perplexed," aired January 27, 2015. Levine is introduced at about the 41 minute mark. Read more and listen to the segment on WNPR's website: http://wnpr.org/post/puzzles-joy-being-perplexed. (Retrieved January 29, 2015).

♦ SILC Members from Northwestern University (Maria Chang, SILC Graduate Student, and Kenneth D. Forbus, Faculty Member, plus Matt Klenk, QRG Graduate Student member) will demonstrate CogSketch at AAAI (The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) 2015's Open House, which is free to the public. More information on both the Open House and on the CogSketch demonstration ("CogSketch: Sketch understanding for cognitive science and education") may be found on AAAI 2015's website:http://movingai.com/AAAI15/openhouse.html.The Open House, which is free and open to the public, will be on: Monday, January 26, 2015 from 9:00am - 6:00pm at the Hyatt Regency, Austin, Texas.